AOS 2

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Keeley Butcher

Cards (18)

    1. The Civil Constitution of the Clergy was a law passed by the National Assembly on 12 July 1790
  • The October March on Versailles happened on October 5 1789
  • The key aims of the March to Versailles were to bring the King back to Paris and to address the food crisis.
  • The importance of taking the King from Versailles was that it pulled the King from the political power in Versailles to the people's power in Paris
  • October Days was the first instance of Lafayette controlling a delicate situation and Robespierre's ability to control a crowd.
  • October March is the first was the first devolvement of a peaceful protest into violence
  • Llwellyn's take on the October Days - "The revolution became a prisoner of Paris"
  • The National Constituent Assembly deports the non-juring clergy in August 1792
  • National Constituent Assembly's treatment of the church in 1789 and 1790, strips them of feudal privilege, church is forced to give wealth to the NCA, tax privileges are abolished, monastic vows are abolished, nationalisation of church lands, tithe abolished, closing of monsasteries and nuneries.
  • Civil Constitution of the Clergy - NCA gives clergy a choice to pledge loyalty to the revolution or leave the church
  • Pope denounces juring priests, in his text Charitas, gives the priests a month to renounce the CCC, or they will no longer be ordained as a Catholic priest
  • Juring Priests - Signed the CCC
  • Non-Juring Priest - Hasn't signed the CCC
  • August 10 1792 - Attack on the Tuilleries
  • Insurrection of the Paris Commune August 9 1792
  • August 9, the sans-culottes overthrow the Paris Commune - local gov - they are joined by radical members of the National Guard, giving military strength to the movement
  • August 10 1792, thousands of armed people upset with King Louis postponing revolutionary progress breach the Tuilleries. The Royal family flee, seeking refuge in the Legislative Assembly.
  • Consequences of the storming of the Tuilleries, the mob surrounds the Assembly, who are forced to dissolve as an institution. The Royal family is held captive in prison and Lafayette flees France out of fear